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twenty-five thousand dollars for the performance of 

 the following among other conditions : 



" That there shall be at all times beds to at least 

 the number of twenty, to be used by British emi- 

 grants arriving in the City of New York, being 

 members of a church in communion with the Prot- 

 estant Episcopal Church in the United States of 

 America, having no settled place of residence, who 

 require medical or surgical skill, for which beds, 

 when vacant, such emigrants shall be entitled to a 

 preference." 



From the foregoing it would appear that the St. 

 George's Society, in its corporate capacity, has not, 

 and had not, at any time, any legal rights in the 

 management, patronage and support of St. Luke's 

 Hospital, and the privileges granted to British emi- 

 grants, so far as they relate to the use of the hos- 

 pital for their medical and surgical treatment, rest 

 with the Church of St. George the Martyr and the 

 British Consul or Vice-Consul, for the time being, 

 in this city. But in order to protect the provisions 

 of the agreement made with St. Luke's Hospital it 

 is highly expedient in the interests of British emi- 

 grants, now and hereafter, that the Church organi- 

 zation of St, George the Martyr be maintained in 

 all its legal integrity, so that the important rights 

 and privileges, acquired under the agreement above 

 recited, may be in no wise imperiled. 



